chip-pings

Updated: July 26, 2026

If I were not habitually engaged in the contemplation of such subjects, if I had not another and appropriate vehicle for them, and if they did not always seem to me too vast for a sheet or two of paper, I suppose that my letters, too, might be wise and weighty. As it is, they are always mere relaxations, or mere chip-pings and parings from the greater themes, at the most.

Orville Dewey - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by his Daughter